There are advantages and
disadvantages to city walks. They're not muddy when it's wet, but
they're usually less interesting to walk. There are lots of street
signs so it's hard to get lost, but there's often a lot of
back-and-forthing to add distance. This is one of those walks. It
circles around streets unnecessarily, not because there's anything
interesting to see but because....well, I'm not quite sure why. The
distance thing, I guess. We started by parking on Hall Blvd right
next to the Beaverton Library, then headed west past City Park. This
is a pretty awesome park, with one of those walk-through fountains
and two concrete ping-pong tables – with built-in nets, no less.
How cool is that? I've seen chess tables in parks, but never ping-pong.
But anyway...we walked from Hall
Blvd to Watson Rd, up a bit and then back over to Hall, circled
around through Beaverton's old town, back across Hall and again over
to Watson. Our destination was “the Round” which is basically a
small semi-circle of a park next to the MAX station (MAX is our light
rail commuter train, for you non-local readers). Then we turned
around and traced our steps back to old town and the Beaverton
Bakery, a favorite of ours....until today. The prices have
skyrocketed, the ladies behind the counter weren't very friendly and
the danish was dry. Maybe it was just a bad day, but we probably
won't be making any special trips back over there.
The good thing is that we were
going to fudge on the walk a little (going back and forth is annoying
but doing it in reverse is pretty much unbearable) but the side trip
put us back walking exactly where the book told us to be. So much
for cutting it short. We retraced our steps back to City Park, where
we sat next to the fountain to eat our somewhat disappointing danish.
Totally worth it, though, as otherwise we probably would have gone
straight back to the car instead of sitting a while to enjoy the warm
weather and sunshine. I'm not sure that our 2.8 mile walk balanced
out the danish, but it's better than driving up to the mall for
Cinnabonn, so I'm going to feel virtuous about it anyway.
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